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The most promising change has taken place in Chile's economy, which Allende left a shambles. After the coup, General Gustavo Leigh Buzman, chief of the air force and a junta member, prescribed a spartan program of "work, work, work." It has helped. The copper industry, which accounts for...
In North Vietnam today, at this moment, former peasants are watching radar screens. The bombing ended last January, but U.S. reconnaissance planes still fly over the country and the B-52's are still based in Thailand. From time to time U.S. officials threaten to resume the air war; the...
Any tenant farmer who can show that he is tilling a piece of land is entitled to take free possession of it, up to certain limits (7.5 acres in the vast Delta, 2½ acres in land-poor central South Viet Nam). Landlords are allowed to retain a maximum of...
Restoring the once bustling commercial life along the western bank of the canal would be another matter. The city of Suez, once home to 268,000 people, now has 10,000. In Ismailia, nearly every building has been shattered by bombs or pocked by shell holes, and the city'...
In 1956, President Ngo Dinh Diem finally pushed through a law that granted tenant farmers the right to buy plots they were tilling. Because of the peasants' lack of money and the inefficiency of the Vietnamese bureaucracy, Diem's program failed. At the 1966 Honolulu summit, the South...